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slug: "/usage-guide/extensions/official/medium"
title: "Medium"
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The Medium extension allows you to easily publish content from Vrite to the [Medium](https://medium.com/) platform.

## Installation

From the _Extensions_ side panel, in the _Available_ section, find _Medium_ and click **Install**.

![Vrite's Medium extension](https://assets.vrite.io/65017ed7b0e627e259623b8a/24QGSKRF4XP7asVpZLE_-.png)

## Configuration

The Medium extension has a few options you have to configure to activate it.

### Integration Token

To retrieve your Medium Integration Token, go to the _Security and apps_ section of your Medium account’s _Settings_: [https://medium.com/me/settings/security](https://medium.com/me/settings/security)

From here, at the bottom of the section, click _Integration tokens_. In the modal, provide a description for your token and click _Get token_.

![Creating Medium Integration token](https://assets.vrite.io/65017ed7b0e627e259623b8a/SlZNYy99HdtKKT2MPALLP.png)

### Content Group ID

The content group you want to automatically publish from. Once a content piece is moved directly to this content group, it’ll trigger a Webhook that’ll auto-publish the content piece on Medium.

You can copy the content group ID from the content group menu in either the dashboard or the explorer.

![Copying the content group ID from Kanban dashboard](https://assets.vrite.io/65017ed7b0e627e259623b8a/N5l7xhJcxGW95WUf0PmKG.png)

### Require Canonical Link

When checked, the auto-publishing won’t trigger if the content piece doesn’t have a **canonical link** assigned. Useful when cross-posting the content to e.g. Medium and your own blog.

### Auto-publish

Whether to enable auto-publishing for all content pieces by default.

### Draft

Whether the Medium article should have a _draft_ status on the platform (not publically visible).

## Usage

With auto-publish enabled, once ready, simply move the content piece from e.g. _Drafts_ content group to the one configured e.g. _Published_. You should see the article published on Medium shortly after.

The extension also provides a content piece view (available from the _Extensions_ section of the _Content piece_ side panel.

From here, you can customize the _Auto-publish_ and _Draft_ options per the given content piece, and easily publish the article “manually” using the _Publish_ button.

![Medium extension's content piece view](https://assets.vrite.io/65017ed7b0e627e259623b8a/gFtMu3Qn3e4kANGzsWLIc.png)